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Syllabus: Semester I

SEMESTER I

PAPER I
CHAUCER AND PHILOLOGY
FULL MARKS: 100

Group A
An acquaintance with the following topics:
1.     Social, political and religious conditions of the Age of Chaucer
2.     Social, political and religious conditions of the 15th Century
3.     Origin and growth of English drama up to Renaissance
4.     Development of poetry in the Age of Chaucer
5.     Development of prose in the 15th Century
6.     Italian and French influence on English Literature of the period
7.     Reformation and its impact on life and literature

Group B
The following texts are prescribed:
1.     Chaucer:                     Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
2.     Langland:                    Piers the Plowman (Prologue, Passus I and II, B version)
3.     Malory:                       Morte D’ Arthur, Chapters 19, 20 & 21

Group C
Translation from Old English into Modern English

Group D
Following topics are prescribed:
1.     English phonemes: English Vowels and  Consonants
2.     Theory of the Origin of Language
3.     Indo-European Family of Language, Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law
4.     Characteristics of English Language
5.     Foreign Influences – Latin, Greek, French and Scandinavian – on English Language
6.     Word Making – Composition, Derivation, Back-formation, Shortening, Root Creation, Telescoping and Conversion
7.     Semantics: Specialization of Meaning , Extension of Meaning, Degeneration of Meaning, Elevation of Meaning, Emotional Addition, Popular Misunderstandings
8.     Contemporary English: Slang, Fossil, American English, Indian English, Basic English
9.     Short Notes: Hybridism, Johnsonese, Euphuism, Malapropism, Spoonerism, Folk Etymology, Portmanteau Words

Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours -                80 Marks)
Group A: One question to be attempted out of three to be set   -                                                16
Group B: Two questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each book -                                                                                                                             2X16 = 32
Group C: Translation of one passage out of two from the prescribed texts (One from Chaucer and the other from Langland) -                                                                                          8
Group D: Two questions to be attempted out of four to be set -                          2X12= 24
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of Written Assignments through the term -                                                   15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes -                               5

PAPER II
ENGLISH LITERATURE (1558-1660)
FULL MARKS: 100
GROUP A
Acquaintance with the age with special reference to the following topics:
  1. Social, political and religious conditions of England from Elizabeth to Oliver Cromwell
  2. Impact of the Renaissance on Elizabethan life and literature
  3. Elizabethan prose
  4. Elizabethan poetry
  5. Elizabethan drama
  6. Jacobean drama
  7. Rise of Puritanism and its impact on English Literature
  8. Impact of the Great Rebellion and Civil War on drama
  9. Poetry in the Age of Milton

GROUP B
The following books are prescribed:
Section I
  1. Milton :                       Paradise Lost
  2. Grierson (ed) :                        Metaphysical Poetry – Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvell
  3. Book of Job :               Authorised Version
Section II
Bacon’s Essays: The following topics are prescribed:
i.                 Of Studies
ii.               Of Friendship
iii.              Of Truth
iv.              Of Nature of Man
v.                Of Great Places
vi.              Of Marriage and Single Life
vii.            Of Unity in Religion
viii.           Of Simulation and Dissimulation

Section III
Marlowe:                    Dr. Faustus
Webster:                     The Duchess of Malfi
Dekker:                        The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours -                80 Marks)
Group A: One question to be attempted out of three to be set -                                      18
Group B: Three questions to be attempted – one from each section – out of two alternative questions to be set on each book (On Bacon, one question will be set on the author and the alternative, on the prescribed text in general) -                                                   3X8= 54
Group C: Objective questions to be set on the prescribed texts -                         1X8= 8
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of Written Assignments through the term -                                                   15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes -                               5

PAPER III
SHAKESPEARE
FULL MARKS: 100
GROUP A
A detailed study of the following topics:
  1. Shakespeare and the English Renaissance
  2. Shakespeare’s dramatic career
  3. Publication of Shakespeare’s plays
  4. Concept and features of Shakespearean tragedies
  5. Concept and features of Shakespearean comedies
  6. Concept and features of Shakespeare’s historical plays
  7. Characteristic features of Shakespeare’s romances
  8. Concept and features of Shakespeare’s sonnets
  9. Theatre and audience during Shakespeare’s time
Group B
Tragedy:                      Hamlet, King Lear
Comedy:                     As You Like It, The Tempest
History Plays:              Henry IV Part I, Richard II

Group C
Shakespeare’s Criticism (1623-1950): Nicholas Smith (Ed.): Dryden, Pope, Dr Johnson, Hazlitt, Lamb, Ernest Jones: Hamlet and Oedipus

Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours -                80 Marks)
Group A: One question to be attempted out of three to be set   -                                                18
Group B: Two questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each book -                                                                                                                             2X18 = 36
Group C: Objective questions to be set on the prescribed texts -                               1X8 = 8
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of Written Assignments through the term -                                                   15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes -                               5

PAPER IV
ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM 1660 TO 1798
FULL MARKS: 100
GROUP A
A detailed study of the following topics:
  1. Social and political conditions in the Restoration period
  2. Social and political conditions in the Neo-classical period
  3. Development of prose in the Restoration period
  4. Development of drama in the Restoration period
  5. Development of drama in the Neo-Classical age
  6. Development of the novel in the 18th century
  7. Development of satire in verse and prose
  8. Poetry in the age of transition
  9. Growth of periodicals and journals
Group B
Section I
The following texts are prescribed:
Dryden:                       All for Love
Goldsmith:                  She Stoops to Conquer
Sheridan:                    The Rivals
Section II
Dryden:                       Absalom and Achitophel
Pope:                           Epistle to Arbuthnot
Gray:                           Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Section III
Fielding:                      Tom Jones
Addison:                     Coverley Papers
Swift:                           Gulliver’s Travels

Distribution of Marks for Semester Examination: (Duration: 3 Hours -                80 Marks)
Group A: One question to be attempted out of three to be set   -                                                18
Group B: Three questions to be attempted out of two alternative questions to be set on each book -                                                                                                                             3X18 = 54
Group C: Objective questions to be set on the prescribed texts -                               1X8 = 8
Internal Assessment: (20 Marks)
On the basis of Written Assignments through the term -                                                   15
On the basis of the student’s performance at extra-curricular activities, general behavior and conduct, performance at seminars and regularity in attending classes -                                5


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